I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine. We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

It's interesting that wise conservative business guys implicitly understand "return on investment" except when it comes to this. It's better for YOU if your neighbor gets enough to eat so he can become your community's mechanic, accountant, dentist--whatever!--instead of lying dead in a ditch

In 1519, the year Spaniards arrived in Mexico, the population there was between 15 - 30 million. By 1600, that dwindled to 2 million. For lots of reasons, but as much as 70% of those deaths were the result of an UNKNOWN hemorrhagic fever. Let's talk about the mystery of the COCOLIZTLI epidemics.

Universities across the world seeing this: "its only wrong 45% of the time!! Lets buy free licenses for our students, staff and faculty!! Lets lock into contracts with rapacious predatory AI companies with shitty technofascist politics, sucking up water and jacking up electricity prices!!"

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

6. The revolving door between Amazon and the Bezos Earth Fund is particularly concerning, as Amazon’s carbon emissions have increased by over 50% since 2018, largely driven by increased energy usage associated with AI. Bezos Earth Fund argues that AI is part of the solution to climate change.

3. The Bezos Earth Fund reportedly pressured a leading environmental standards group, the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), to relax its rules around letting corporations use offsets to meet carbon goals.

2. Most of Bezos' charitable giving ($2.3 billion) has gone to the Bezos Earth Fund. But the organization has developed a reputation less as a sincere effort to combat climate change and more as a vehicle for the corporate infiltration of the key climate organizations.

Op sociale media delen PVV-fanaccounts levensechte AI-beelden, veelal van knappe, blonde vrouwen die worden bedreigd door migranten. Deze pagina’s blijken te worden beheerd door minstens twee PVV-Kamerleden. 👉 buff.ly/MFNFcU3

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

My daughter has just found this in Istanbul

We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.

BREAKING: At least 2 students shot at Evergreen High School, Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office says

I got the complaint in the horrific OpenAI self harm case the the NY Times reported today This is way way worse even than the NYT article makes it out to be OpenAI absolutely deserves to be run out of business

Today I learned about Curt Baller. He was mayor of the German town Nordhausen, until the nazis replaced him with Sting.

Tip of the iceberg. www.israelhayom.com/2025/04/23/b...

Ik wil dat de politiek de samenleving sterker dient, met name de plucheplakkers van NSC en BBB. Werk eens niet alleen voor jezelf en je eigen partij voor dat riante salaris. www.scienceguide.nl/2025/08/nsc-...

Exhibit A

fossil fuels are the perfect mechanism for capitalist accumulation b/c they enable profit to be extracted from the past (capturing energy from archived sunlight), & the future, as costs are externalized to an elsewhere that is not only spatially distant but temporally too

“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”

AI is a disaster for education at all levels. restofworld.org/2025/colombi...

Bleaching was once a warning. Now it’s a death mark. Entire stretches of reef aren’t bouncing back — they’re gone. When an ecosystem that took millennia to build dies in front of us, that’s not “alarmism.” That’s reality. apple.news/AwSmcDCgARE-...

Staggering numbers of Palestinians now being shot in Gaza as they try to find food at GHF sites, or along UN convoy routes. More than 4,500 people treated in a single Red Cross clinic. Almost 1,400 across two MSF clinics. Total is more than 12,000, according to health ministry.

Generating text statistically similar to training, 2 years ago, meant statistically similar to humans. Now it means statistically similar to a billion reddit posts where a guy is ranting and raving about how quantum recursion is transforming him into an immortal god

"More than 1,500 civilians may have been massacred during an attack on Sudan’s largest displacement camp in April, in what would be the second-biggest war crime of the country’s catastrophic conflict." www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

nos.nl/l/2577755 En omwille van de.... balans? voegen ze deze alinea in, inclusief de tussenkop 'Chatbots kunnen patiënten ook helpen'

Er zijn twee soorten mensen...

This is a moral abomination.

What a horror story. Why would anyone come to the USA for a vacation? Story of a Swiss woman detained in humiliating conditions at JFK + in NJ detention before being deported. www.nzz.ch/english/you-...

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

This is the Washington Post (yes, that one): names in Arabic and English, and ages, of all 18,500 children killed in Gaza, plus portraits and stories where available: www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

I've recently learned that a lot of cartoonists make extra money by doing sexy cosplay for Patreon. I'm thinking of doing a sexy (adult) Ron Weasley. Any requests? I can do other Weasleys.

Who decided to call it "Reader in History specialized in the Second Punic War" and not "Hannibal Lector"?

What the heck

Zojuist geluisterd en onweerstaanbaar kwam het beeld in me op van @anotheraspirin.bsky.social die naar woorden zoekt om te vermijden iets te zeggen als, "net als in die meme met de astronauten"

Vanaf begin hebben mensen zich uitgesproken tegen het uitmoorden van Palestijnen. Ze wezen op de onderdrukking die al veel langer plaatsvindt. Kabinet-Wilders/Yesilgöz bleef Israël steunen. Bij genocide in het volle zicht. Kom alsnog als de sodemieter in actie, Schoof www.trouw.nl/buitenland/i...

Dit artikel had ook géén campagnepromotie voor Wilders kunnen zijn. @nieuws.nos.nl Bijna de hele tekst gaat over hem en niet over de voorstanders van het azc en de vóórstemmende gemeenteraadsleden nos.nl/l/2574090

Ik snap dat mensen uit Coevorden een gewelddadige reputatie hebben, maar laten we niet álle Coevordenaars aanspreken op het gedrag van een klein deel van hen. Laten degenen die bezorgd zijn over de aanwezigheid van Coevordenaars in gesprek gaan met hen die Coevordenaars in Nederland willen houden.

NEW: People are being involuntarily committed to psychiatric care facilities — and even ending up arrested or jailed — after becoming fixated on ChatGPT and other chatbots and spiraling into psychosis. futurism.com/commitment-j...

Arme Amalia. Eerst een gebroken arm en nu dit

'Kinderen kermen van de pijn door een tekort aan pijnstillers.’ Terwijl de wereld blijft wegkijken, is de dood in Gaza overal. www.nu.nl/midden-ooste...

It's pretty irritating how many pundits would hear the ideas "I want to shove 100 live scorpions in your mouth" and "I want to shove 0 live scorpions in your mouth" and sagely declare: "The wisest course of action is to let someone shove 50 live scorpions in your mouth."

Slechtste. Manier. Ooit.

@nieuws.nos.nl, al verslag gedaan van de landelijke protesten in de VS? www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/no-kings-day-demonstration-protest-rally-trump-military-parade/

Ari Abramowitz, een Israëlische kolonist, wil liever niet erkennen dat Palestijnen bestaan. Louis Theroux spreekt hem in zijn nieuwe documentaire 'The Settlers'. Kijk de documentaire nu op NPO Start npo.nl/start/video/...

@zevhandel.bsky.social I have noticed something on page 131* of your book. Is there a reason why "一緒に (issho ni)" is omitted in the translation? I guess it doesn't change the meaning of the sentence, but you wouldn't know that if you don't know any Japanese, right? *and 104 and 130